[CMake] Looking for a way to do 'make install' to a destination

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Mon Apr 19 10:22:42 EDT 2010


On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:36, Remy Chibois <rchibois at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 19, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>> It's some times useful to do an install rooted not at '/' but at some
>> arbitrary location.  Is there some way of doing this with the GNU
>> makefiles generated by cmake?
>>
>> Something like auto*'s 'make install DESTDIR=/where/I/want/it'?
>
> Once a project has been configured, "cmake_install.cmake" contains support for it.
>
> I use the following command line to use it:
>
> make -f Makefile DESTDIR=/foo/bar/whatever install

Thanks, that's what I was looking for.

Are there other "make-time variables" (as opposed to "configure-time
variables") that are worth knowing about?  Is there a reference for
them anywhere?

/M

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